Tradition 13 of 33
Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists
Apparitions, haunted places, poltergeists, ghost lore, and investigations of hauntings.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,446
- Earliest
- 1016
- to 2026
- Read free
- 40%
- 971 with public full text
- With covers
- 57%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match2,349
- Metadata match79
- Query match14
- Source classification (retained through merging)4
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Ghosts494
- Fiction335
- Apparitions332
- Ghost stories258
- Apparitions and miracles197
- Haunted houses152
- Juvenile fiction130
- Haunted places129
- History122
- Gespenst107
- Children's fiction102
- Early works to 180097
- Fantômes89
- Poltergeists88
- Scotland65
- Supernatural65
- Horror tales60
- Social Sciences60
- Horror stories58
- holy ghost53
- occultism52
- Art51
- Short Stories51
- Fiction, horror46
Top languages
- English1,410 · 58%
- French339 · 14%
- German209 · 9%
- Spanish103 · 4%
- Japanese57 · 2%
Notable authors
All authors- Robert Lawrence Stine29 in this tradition54 books
- Charles Dickens22 in this tradition29 books
- Daniel Defoe16 in this tradition31 books
- Ludwig Lavater12 in this tradition19 books
- Augustin Calmet12 in this tradition18 books
- Joseph Glanvill11 in this tradition19 books
- 叶兴阳双语音标有声读物10 in this tradition23 books
- Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling10 in this tradition13 books
- Richard Baxter9 in this tradition29 books
- Algernon Blackwood8 in this tradition13 books
- Hans Holzer8 in this tradition13 books
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu8 in this tradition11 books
2,446 books
- Read free
The skeleton scout; or, The border block
Albert W Aiken
Date unknown
- Read free
The sociable ghost
Olive Harper, Thomas McIlvaine, A. W Schwartz
Date unknown
- Read free
They return at evening
Herbert Russell Wakefield
Date unknown
- Read free
Three John Silence Stories
Algernon Blackwood
Date unknown
- Read free
Three More John Silence Stories
Algernon Blackwood
Date unknown
- Read free
To Be Read at Dusk
Charles Dickens
Date unknown
- Read free
Toffee haunts a ghost
Henry Farrell, Enoch Sharp
Date unknown
- Read free
Tom Ossington's Ghost
Richard Marsh, Harold Piffard
Date unknown
- Read free
True Irish Ghost Stories
St. John St. John Drelincourt Seymour, Harry Neligan
Date unknown
- Read free
Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter
Elliott O'Donnell, H. C Bevan-Petman, Phyllis Vere Campbell
Date unknown
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Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
W. Bob Holland
Date unknown
- Read free
Two Ghostly Mysteries
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Date unknown
- Read free
Uncanny Stories
May Sinclair, Jean de Boschère
Date unknown
- Read free
Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots
Caroline Bancroft, Daniel K Peterson
Date unknown
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Visible and Invisible
Edward Frederic Benson
Date unknown
- Read free
Was it a ghost? The murders in Bussey's wood
Henry Johnson Brent
Date unknown
- Read free
When Ghost Meets Ghost
William De Morgan
Date unknown
- Read free
When the Holy Ghost is Come
Samuel Logan Brengle
Date unknown
- Read free
Widdershins
Oliver Onions
Date unknown
- Read free
Woodside, the North End of Newark, N.J.
Charles Gilbert Hine
Date unknown
- Read free
Magikon
Magikon : Archiv für Beobachtungen aus dem Gebiete der Geisterkunde und des magnetischen und magischen Lebens nebst andern Zugaben für Freundes Innern
1843German
- Read free
Apparizioni di S. Michele Arcangelo, patrono dell'insigne terra di Brisighella
Achille Lega
1854Italian
Ghosts and Things
Aviva Briefel
2025
- Read free
The Dual Economy
Azhar ul Haque Sario
2026